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I bet if his eyes shot out lasers you'd have WTF! seared across your forehead.::smile::
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Great investment, sfear. Is this the crown jewel of your library?
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Second only to this:
http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/z...ngBuzz-Saw.jpg Also, I'm pretty partial to my Ballantine Lovecraft paperbacks with the great John Holmes covers. http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/z...uMythosIII.jpg http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/z...edRoomTomb.jpg http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/z...urkingFear.jpg Plus my Edmond Hamilton collection, My Jack Vance collection, and my Ace Doubles. Not to mention my sf magazine collection. But it's up there.::smile:: |
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The highlights of yesterday:
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Definitely a candidate for one of the very worst covers of all time.
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Well, it's eye-catching!
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From the thrift store:
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Found this on sale for a buck at, of all places, Barnes & Noble:
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Got the following books this week:
M.R. James: Collected Ghost Stories Robert E. Howard: Haunter of the Ring & Other Tales Ambrose Pierce: Terror by Night Also ordered this one: Horrors From The Haunted Seas by William Hope Hodgson Haven't read anything by these writers yet. But I did some research earlier on and it looks like my cup of tea. Oh, yeah. Also bought Lemmy's White Line Fever. |
Just ordered The Monster Club to be shipped from the UK. I figure if sfear keeps it as his avatar for years on end it must be pretty good!
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I remember seeing this a while ago - and it was too much $$$ to buy.
I just found it - mint condition - unread - including the simpsons comic enclosed for 99 cents. |
Every year a locally owned bookstore on the south side of town offers their customers 25% off any book in the store and a free cup of coffee from the coffee shop upstairs. What can be better than that?
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Speaking of dwindling storage space, I've been trying to break the habit of stopping by the library every weekend and checking out the freebie shelf. But what good is a habit if it's easy to break?
http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/z...s867f2cf8.jpeghttp://i819.photobucket.com/albums/z...sd8cc5788.jpeg THE ARMED VISION contains a 20 plus page essay on the writings of Van Wyck Brooks and I thought this should be enlightening. What I got was a front row seat of Brooks getting bashed by a shop lamp. Hyman spends most of his time displaying his strong dislike for everything except his strong dislike for everything. I suppose some will be impressed. The MacInnes sort of speaks for itself. 1942 paperback. Doesn't get much cooler than that. |
Recently acquired Dune, The Club Dumas, and Incarnate by Ramsey Campbell. I will start on those in a couple weeks when I get some free time.
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Picked up POE: A LIFE CUT SHORT by Peter Ackroyd. Some of Ackroyd's books, such as his bio of Dickens or his history of London, are massive. POE is one of his "Brief Lives" biographies and as the term suggests is quite a bit thinner. Looking forward to reading it.
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Lots of stories spanning the years between 1852 and 1908, many of the authors unfamiliar to me. Looks really, really good.
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Went to my favorite thrifty thrift store today and found these:
http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/z...s7b29f7d0.jpeghttp://i819.photobucket.com/albums/z...sa6e8a524.jpeg http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/z...s30c95101.jpeg ANNO DRACULA - 35 cents MURDER ON TRIAL - 35 cents THE REASON WHY - 25 cents |
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http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/z...s7671d703.jpeg http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/z...s2706c9ca.jpeg http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/z...scbee6906.jpeg Thrilling Wonder Stories --- February 1951 Fantastic Adventures --- April 1951 Startling Stories --- November 1952 Startling Stories --- July 1950 This is what happens when you check out an antique shop you've never been in before. Picked them up yesterday. Good Friday indeed! |
Kudos sfear on your finds. I personally love diamond-in-the-rough discoveries. That said...
...that bear person looks like he may have something on his mind which needs no sidearms... or females. His expression seems to gruffly say: "I'm tired of waiting." The woman is not expressing the fright self-preservation provokes when two people wrestle while one holds a gun. Her expression is the more awkwardly polite "Uh, do you two need me around for this?" The human male - who isn't struggling much - seems more reticent of public observation than combat. His anxious expression seems to say "Is there no place more private?" The small phallic-esque rocket immediately behind the bear, suggestive though it is, is completely obscured by the monstrously phallic-looking rocket angled curiously in line with the bear-creature's pelvis. It may also be artistic coincidence that the human male's outfit's pelvic flap is similar in color to the bear person's paw. That both males are completely indifferent to the scantily clad curvy blonde is... well... I mean I'm no Freudian analyst... ...but if I were, I would definitely start with these characters being so rendered beneath the title Startling Stories. |
Thanks for the spot on analysis, not so much for the mental imagery. ::EEK!::
Not sure I'll ever be able to look at this cover with the eyes of the hopelessly innocent again.::sad:: |
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And do apologize to your hopeless innocence for me as it seems I've quite schlepped it up. ::roll eyes:: (Seriously though that was a crackin' catch you scored at the antique shop - well done, you!) |
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Just came in! ::cool:: Although this was a screamin' deal, it's far and away the most expensive paperback I've ever bought. ::roll eyes:: |
Lemmy - White Line Fever
Bez - Freaky Dancin': Me And The Mondays Shaun Ryder - Twistin' My Melon Mark Manning - Fucked By Rock: The Unspeakable Confessions Of Zodiac Mindwarp |
Made a Time-Life Book haul today:
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Found something interesting on the library freebie shelf last Saturday: THE SCHOLAR ADVENTURERS by Richard D. Altick. "High detective work exposing fraud, exploding hoary errors, exhuming old mysteries of great literature and great writers." Boswell, Malory, Marlowe, the Brontes, Hawthorne, Pepys and more all under the microscope of this literary gumshoe. Looks really good but will have to wait until I finish the Louise Penny mystery my wife suggested I read.
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Lady of Ashes by Christine Trent
The Boonsboro Trilogy by Nora Roberts |
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Also known as THE SECRET PEOPLE. Should be The Secret Desire. |
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Freebie from the library and good counter balance to: http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/z...ps2152b784.jpg an original anthology form 1976 which I'm reading right now. |
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